HHMI Bulletin, November 2007 PDF How far will Scott Strobel take his students to fire their interest in science? To the Amazon and back. Read about their adventures and what they learned in "Going the Distance." Also in this issue:
Studying how marine bacteria light up when ready, a scientist known for her communication skills revealed the purposeful chitchat used by these tiny organisms.
Each individual's genome is its own unique landscape. And variations much larger than slight misspellings in our DNA bas pairs may explain our looks as well as our susceptibility to disease.
Forage or mate? Stay or run? Innocent or guilty? Deal or no deal? Each is a job for the brain's "jury room."
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HHMI Bulletin, November 2007 Print A college course has students plucking specimens from a rainforest then charting their own exploration back in the lab. More